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Wednesday, August 15, 2018

The nonprofit's project will expand from 50 to 80 schools across five states next year, as EdScoop News reports.

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Through a partnership with Google for Education, the education
nonprofit Digital Promise seems to have found success in tackling what
it says is among the foremost issues in education today — the "digital
use divide."

Earlier this week, the two partners released a report outlining the results of the Dynamic Learning Project,
a teacher-coaching program piloted in 50 low-income schools across
Alabama, California, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Texas last year.
The report found that instructional coaching — the process of teaching
the teacher — paid dividends for teachers who might have struggled to
otherwise integrate technology into their classroom.

Each school was specially selected by Google and Digital Promise
based on interest from faculty and the severity of its “digital use
divide," or the skill of its faculty in utilizing the technology
available to them...

With funding from Google for Education, the project sponsored 50
instructional technology coaches, or DLP coaches, for one year. The
coaches — many of whom were previously employees at their respective
schools prior to the project — essentially became resident technology
experts that the schools otherwise would not have had the resources or
ability to provide.

Teachers took advantage of the free expertise from the coaches, who themselves were mentored by Google throughout the year.Read more... Source: EdScoop News

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